Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 287
and the point, which is a concentrated corner,and has wonderfully elaborate decorations all to its insignifi-cant self, flnials, and spikes, and I know not what more.But both these conditions are so closely connected with roofs(even the cusp finial being a kind of pendant to a small roof),that I… … with the three subjects above distinguished: and, first, th«corner or Angle. § vii. The mathematician knows there are many kinds ofangles ; but the one we have principally to deal with now, isthat which the reader may very easily conceive as the cornerof a square house, or square anything. It is of…
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